I just added two new blogs to my blogroll: Weinberg on Writing, and Secrets of Consulting. You may be wondering why.Writing cover letters is a non-trivial matter, and too many candidates do a poor job. Learning to write better, especially for something as important as cover letters, is one of those Good Ideas. A couple […]
If you read this blog via an aggregator, you may not notice the changes. But I have succesfully updated my blogroll and made all the monthly archive pages appear. If you think I’ve missed your blog in the blogroll, please send me an email. Until I update the whole site, I’m done with blog housekeeping
If you read this blog via a newsreader instead of a browser, you may not notice I’ve been slowly making changes. I have finally figured out how to have Blogger automatically generate the archive links in reverse chronological order on the left (when you look at the page in a browser). Unfortunately, I must have
I’m guest blogging this week on computerworld.com. It’s different from what I normally post here.
I received an outraged phone call this morning. Some woman was calling on behalf of a candidate who had sent me a resume. Let me explain, in case it’s not clear. I am not a recruiter. I have no open positions. I do not supply resume review services. I am trying to make a difference
I’ll be guest blogging on Recruiting.com. I don’t have the magic password yet, so you’ll have to wait until next week to see anything I write. I had a great email and then phone conversation with Jason. I explained I wasn’t a recruiter, and only knew about recruiting from the client side. He said that
I’m in the midst of changing commenting systems, so you can’t see all the old comments. I hope to import them shortly. In the meantime, please use this commenting system to comment.
Some not very nice people are spamming my blogs with inappropriate comments, so I’ve turned off comments for now. Unfortunately, I only know how to make them all unseen, rather than than not post new ones. I have questions into my comments provider about that. I’ll turn commenting back on when I can make it
If you’re a hiring manager and you haven’t started using a blog to help people find you, consider it. Right now, there are still tons of great technical people looking for jobs, but it’s hard to find just the right candidates. And, I’ve been reading articles in the popular press that say we’ll have a
I’ve also been writing intermittently on the Job and HR blogs. I don’t cross-reference the blog postings here, so look for different posts there. I haven’t been writing a lot in those blogs due to my work schedule, but that seems to be working out.